Nick Tansley needs help. (Seriously)

Hey Forum.

Nick Tansley just rang me and asked if I knew anyone who could (with authority) help him run through the West Ham team list and get an accurate pronunciation for every name on it.

Anyone back themselves? Any West Ham experts?

Andy Carroll - pronounced "ee-yore"

:P

Stand down, have put him onto Kiwi Hammers chief Nick Daly.

Hey I just do what I'm asked around here. I don't get involved with the logic of the question.

Smithy and logic don't go in the same sentance

(or even the same book for that matter if 'In the Zone' has taught me anything)

Tell him to go to GM (either one), be honest and admit "the games up".

Hopefully Roy Krishna will run through the West Ham team and save him the trouble!

The Topp Twins could have helped him out.

Fuck. So that means Tansley and Topp Twins on the same day. Fuck

^ LOL :)

Tell him to do like Dewhurst does...avoids saying their name. "The player" or "the (insert Name of team) West Ham player has the ball"....

Bump. Egg on our faces for thinking this was odd.

Not really, he is a professional getti g paid for this so he really should have done his home work. I wo der if he ever thought of alproaching the differcult to say players at the practice sessions and ask them how to pronounce their name?

He needed help with all the teams. How hard is it really? Can't believe he got paid for that embarrassing effort.

I'm fairly certain he had been drinking. 

Was he the ground announcer? That Coloccini call was crackup

I couldn't hear half the subs, but no matter.

For Coloccini he shoul have said "mr curly hair".

He couldn't even get the Phoenix players right. 'Lewis Fenton' was a crowd favourite.

I thoroughly enjoyed yesterday in its entirety, but this announcer made me feel very embarrassed.

Bring back With A Bucket On Your Head!

Tansley has always been embarrassing. Some of his sexual inuendo on the radio over the years was borderline. But still some people out there like him and keep him in a job. Me? I'd be referring him to Winz.

Can we just have someone who actually follows football do the job? The last guy was great. Vedran Janjetovic and Sasa Ognenovski were the two most cringe worthy pronounciations of the day, Tansley really struggled with those two, had to read them at a snails pace and still got them horribly wrong

They are hard to say if you are reading the name, but easy to say if you hear someone else say it. Just like Postecoglou. Tansley doesn't know what he's doing. 

Bring back Mark McLeod. 

When he was reading the Nix team....

*Burns picture comes up* "number 9................'tumbleweed'.................Nath *Brockie's picture shows up* Burns......

Good recovery though in the end.

I swear I heard him turning or ruffling pages too lol.

"Corey Gammy Aero"

"Stand up....for the phoenix."       Oh wait, that's us

Also his website has an alarming amount of Comic Sans. That's not ok. 

http://www.nicktansley.co.nz/index.php?page=home

"Nick is in my opinion the Mr Master of Ceremonies, Wellington" ...who the hell wrote that? Nick himself? Master of screw ups. Oh hang on, if you read more testimonies is comes from Bill Day.

Until Saturday I thought Nick Tansley was a character in Coronation Street

This Nick Tansley character seems pretty terrible.  Is there no one really talented on the radio anymore?  I remember the good old days of people like Herb Gardner on ZMFM - he was brilliant.

Au contraire Frankie:

Brilliant work by Nick!

say my name

say my name

if you are Nick Tansley

and your on the tannoy

at the Phoenix game...

One Mick Tinsley

There's only one Mick Tinsley...

Followed by lots of laughter.

Fixed!